For friends of Index Copernicus: their description of ranking process is here http://jml2012.indexcopernicus.com/page.php?page=3&id_lang=3
See the last step:
“Base Points (BP) are converted into the 10-point, Total Score Base – Total Basic Score (TBS), then:
- In the case of the magazines in the Journal Citation Reports maintained by Thomson Reuters, Index Copernicus Value (ICV) is calculated by the following formula:
9 + [(TBS) * (IF)]
where IF (called ImpactFactor) represents the ratio of impact.
Journals indexed in one of the databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index Expanded, Art and Humanities obtain the ICV = 9 points.
- In other cases, the magazine receive a score TBS = ICV.”
No wonder, that ICV correlates with IF. One just has to have in mind that ICV for !!!any!!! journal which has IF will be above 9. And when some journal cites its ICV on the web page as impact factor, this is real fraud.
